Joist App for Contractors
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Estimate & Invoice Tool

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Description

Create quick, professional estimates and invoices, accept payments, and manage projects from anywhere!

Joist is a FREE tool for contractors that helps you SAVE TIME, WIN MORE JOBS, and STAY ORGANIZED.

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► CONTRACTORS LOVE JOIST

• SAVES TIME - Complete work at the jobsite or in the truck, rather than spending your evenings and weekends catching up on paperwork after a long day• WIN MORE JOBS - Send your client an estimate before you leave. Be the first to get an estimate in their hands, and give them the opportunity to say YES on the spot• REMOVE THE BOTTLENECK OF ESTIMATING & INVOICING - Build estimates and invoices quicker by creating and selecting from your list of commonly used materials and labor rates• ACCEPT PAYMENTS FROM CLIENTS - accept Credit Card and E-Check payments from your clients directly through Joist, so you can stop wasting hours driving around to pick up checks and deposit them at the bank• EASILY MANAGE CLIENTS - Create, organize, and store valuable client info, so you can access their info anytime, on the go• LOOK PROFESSIONAL - Show your clients that you’re the contractor they should trust for the job; with customized, professional looking estimates and invoices

"Now I can do quotes on the fly I don't have to walk through the job and write everything down its all programmed in to my iPad right from material cost to cost per square foot! This app is so awesome."

"This app is better than any pc software I have ever wasted money on. And the kicker is joist is free"

------------------► IN-APP PURCHASES

You can subscribe to Quickbooks Sync Monthly for $9.99 US, Quickbooks Sync Annual for $90.99 US, JoistPro Monthly for $11.99 US or JoistPro Annual for $119.99 US. Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes Account at the purchase confirmation. Monthly and annual subscriptions will automatically renew after 30 or 365 days for the prices listed above, respectively, and account will be charged within 24 hrs of the end of the current subscription period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hrs before the end of the current subscription period. Subscriptions can be managed in App Store or iTunes account settings after subscribing. Unused portions of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

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Joist is FREE to Download and FREE to use - available on iPhone, iPad, & the web.

What’s New

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5

2.5K Ratings

2.5K Ratings

Lucius lucky
, 06/06/2019

Joist now charges

Justin nailed it right on the head. Well said my friend. How can we trust a company who out of nowhere decides to charge me for something I've been using to run my small business for years? If I was never offered these amenedies from the beginning, I would not have a problem... In my eyes it's no different than this scenario.

If I saw someone walking to work every day in the snow and I offered them a free car to use for 5 years, then at the start of the 6th year I said you can still use the car but you have to start paying me a monthly fee. If you don't like it, you can still use the car but I'm taking two of the tires, the steering wheel, and the headlights. This is what I feel is happening with the joist app right now. I asked numerous times when I first signed up " there will never be a fee in the future right"?Again and again I was told nope, this is totally free. I feel my business would look unprofessional if I uprooted my estimate and invoicing software out of the blue. I hope the joist team reconsiders this move as I've loved the app since day 1.

VO Tarby Tim
, 07/02/2019

Happy to pay for QuickBooks

I was a Joist user for over 4 years and I, like nearly everyone else who has recently written a review, just could not believe that this developer would do a 180 and contradict himself in the process by charging a monthly fee. This wouldn’t be so terrible if he had come out with new features and decided to charge for these new features. He didn’t! He came up with brainiac idea of taking 4 or 5 of the features that have been part of Joist for as long as I remember, slapped the word Pro onto the name Joist and sent out an email to users with the great news. The tone of the email was one of excitement, as if he thought we’d all be excited to start paying for the features we’ve been using for years, for free. I have no problem with the guy making money, but c’mon, charge for new features, don’t pull the rug out from everyone! I deleted the Joist app after downloading my data and closing my account. I am now paying for QuickBooks. I am paying more for QuickBooks than I would have paid Joist and I am happy to do it. QuickBooks made it so unbelievably easy to upload my Joist data. It was a seamless, painless transition. There are a multitude of QuickBooks versions. Just compare them to one another, pick your version and away you go. In the end, Joist made my life a lot easier, by forcing my hand. QuickBooks is the real deal!

Developer Response
, 05/06/2019

Hi Tim, thanks for being with us since 2014. Very sorry to hear that you've decided to look elsewhere. I've reached out to you directly through e-mail if you would like to discuss matters in more detail.

Dustin F523
, 05/01/2019

App creator getting overly greedy

I’ve been using this app for years. It’s a simple app to create invoice and estimates (not a lot of design options but I never wanted anything too fancy anyway) to send to customers as well as create a price book, customer log, etc. So it’s been extremely helpful. Recently however they’ve “upgraded” and locked me out of features such as the ability to take pictures and save them to the invoice or estimate, something I use almost every time!!! Also it appears I will not get notifications like I used to when customers opened my emails. It’s one thing to add to the app and charge for new features, it’s robbery frankly to lock me out of features I’ve always been able to use! On top of that they want to charge me $12/month for it!!! I could see paying $12 one time to unlock the features I’ve always had. But this is total BS. I’m not asking for something to be free. But $12/month is way too much to charge, I’m just a little fish and use this app for my side work. Even if I did a lot more work $12/month is way too much. Hope the app developers see this and get enough other poor reviews so they will change this. At least give me back my features that I already had and actually work to add new features to charge for.

Developer Response
, 05/02/2019

Hi Dustin, thanks for reaching out to us. Glad to hear the app has been extremely helpful to you over the years! We feel that the app provides a lot of value and $10 per month (billed annually) is a fair and reasonable price to pay to run your business through the app. We're committed to growing the app and making it more robust in the future, but that requires ongoing development and ongoing investment. You don't need to decide to upgrade right away and you have until May 21st to make up your mind. After that, even if you don't upgrade to Joist Pro, you're welcome to continue using the free version of the app indefinitely :)